MISO is weighing how it can improve its interregional process and joint operating agreement with SPP to make it easier to develop cross-seams projects.

MISO will expedite review of a proposal to interconnect the massive Foxconn electronics plant ahead of the RTO’s usual year-end approval schedule.

MISO is seeking to more closely harmonize its load forecasting process with the four 15-year future scenarios it creates for transmission planning.

MISO is close to completing a plan that would give generators three years to submit a decision to retire after signaling their intention.

A MISO task team is slated for retirement after successfully developing several changes to the competitive transmission process that were approved by FERC.

MISO is reviewing an expedited project request from ATC to connect a massive Foxconn manufacturing plant that would be Wisconsin’s largest power user.

MISO will delay until next year its proposal to implement a more open-ended approach to its generator retirement process.

MISO will submit two filings with FERC to further refine its new generation interconnection process, while a third will facilitate HVDC interconnection.

Stakeholder sectors have eschewed MISO’s suggestion that they apply equal weight to the RTO’s four 15-year future scenarios used for next year’s planning.

After a second full review of the 2011 slate of multi-value transmission projects, MISO has concluded that benefits outpace rising project costs.